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Ad 20um Arlum deponit et dicit that the Captaine and Companie
of the Experience did not fight with any of the said three
Dutch ships in Defence of either of the said Portugall ships
or ladings, nor did they the said Captaine and Company of the Expe=
rience fight with or shoot any Guns at any of the said Dutch
ships in defence of the Experience and her lading, untill
they first came to windward of her as enemies, and had fired
a broadside upon her without hayling her as aforesaid;
which he knoweth for that he tooke speciall notice thereof./

Ad 21um deponit that all the said sugars Tobaccoes and other
goods soe laden on board the Experience at Brazeele were
on board her at the time of her seizure by the said Dutch
Captains and Companies, and were worth the summe
of fourty five thousand pounds sterling or thereabouts
Et ulterius ad hunc Articulum (salvis praedepositis ad qua
se refert) nescit deponere./

Ad 22um dicit that the Experience was and is a ship of the
burthen of foure hundred Tons and upwards and
carried thirty great Guns, and had in her at her seizure
tackle and furniture for a voyage of two and twenty
moneths, and a great quantity of provisions, and further
that the said ship togeather with her provisions tackle and
furniture was well worth at the time of her seizure the summe of foure thousand pounds sterling and upwards in this deponents estimation.
Et alr nescit deponere./

To the last he sayth that the producents Bretton Delboe, Mid=
dleton and Company by meanes of the seizure of their ship
and lading togeather with her provisions, tackle and furniture
by the said Dutch Captains and Companies in manner
as aforesaid have suffered losse and dammage to the value
of fifty thousand pounds sterling as neare as this deponent can
estimate the same. Et alr nescit./

Repitus coram Doctor Master Surro[?gatus]./

Tho: Sawki[?in] [SIGNATUR, RH SIDE]

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25th die Octobris 1660./

Super Allega[?cone] predicta./

7us

Georgius Whately parochia Sancti [?Petsi] in Viculis infra
Libertatem Tu[?ris] London Mercatoribus a libellis
annos natus 42. aut eo circiter testis in hac
causa productus juratus et examinatus dicit
et deponit put sequitur videlicet.

Ad primum dictae Allonis deponit that for all the tyme arlate
The producents Thomas Bretton, Symon Delboe, Andrew Middleton
Abraham Sayon, Giles Travers, Robert Biddulph and John
Godstall (all merchants of this city of London) were and still are
and ought to be the true and lawfull owners and Proprietors
of the Arlate ship the Experience and of her tackle apparrell
and furniture, and for as such he sayth they were and
are